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After Decades of Surveillance, Muslims Struggle with How Much to Share Online
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Thirteen years ago, Mosaab Sadeia accompanied his father to a mosque in Staten Island. He remembers it was during the winter, after the last Isha prayer when his father went t...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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TikTok a Year After Trump’s Ban: No Change, but New Threats
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Saturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app TikTok from millions of US smartphones, citing threa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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FBI China spy probe faces backlash as case against professor ends in mistrial
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An FBI agent’s admission he baselessly targeted a Chinese Canadian researcher in an economic espionage probe is driving calls for a federal investigation into the Justice Depa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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China's on a mission to dominate space internet
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China is ramping up plans for government-sponsored satellites to beam internet from space, taking on U.S. rivals like SpaceX and Amazon in the race to own the next frontier of...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Army Trains AI to Identify Faces in the Dark
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Facial recognition has already come a long way since U.S. Special Operations Forces used the technology to help identify Osama bin Laden after killing the Al-Qaeda leader in h...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Could Your Electric Vehicle Be Sabotaged?
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Just as the United States and its companies are pushing to electrify transportation, the nascent industry faces a new threat: In an apparent new form of brinkmanship, leading ...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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TikTok ‘not a great look’ for lawmakers, security experts say
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Despite official warnings for nearly a year about the security risks of the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app, several politicians who might be ideal targets for Beijing’...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Commerce has questions to answer on data access and national security
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A teenager in Oklahoma uploads a video of herself mimicking the latest dance craze to an app on her phone. Is that a national security risk? Should the government ban the app?...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Keeping Close Watch
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Alarmed by reports of cyberattacks and the growing threat China poses to national security, the United States Congress passed a law in 2018 that would ban any facility operate...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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China Thinks It Has Found a Way To Surpass the U.S. Military Through AI, Experts Warn
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China is trying to “leapfrog” U.S. superpower strength through increased use of military artificial intelligence. The U.S. and China have increased development of artificial ...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Ex-Google Boss Says Artificial Intelligence Will Be Key to U.S. National Security
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The former top executive of Google described artificial intelligence as a linchpin in global power struggles and warned the U.S. could fall behind rivals like China unless it ...
By Ainikki Riikonen & Michael Horowitz
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5G: COVID Gives US A 2nd Chance Vs. Huawei
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Britain’s decision to ban Huawei from its 5G network marks a potential tipping point in the global battle over 5G, say the authors of a new study from the Center for a New Ame...
By Martijn Rasser & Ainikki Riikonen
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Algorithmic Warfare: Hackers Take Advantage of Mass Teleworking
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Adversaries are likely to exploit the widespread movement toward teleworking by government workers and federal contractors during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn. Essye M...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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What’s the best way for the Pentagon to invest in artificial intelligence?
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The Department of Defense is poised to spend nearly $1 billion on artificial intelligence in the next year. The Pentagon’s proposed budget for fiscal 2020 includes some $927 m...
By Ainikki Riikonen
